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![]() these functions are called a whole lot, and they're all comparatively small. always inlining them gives ~0.7% performance boost on eval. before: Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello Time (mean ± σ): 6.935 s ± 0.052 s [User: 5.852 s, System: 0.853 s] Range (min … max): 6.808 s … 7.026 s 20 runs Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix Time (mean ± σ): 329.8 ms ± 2.7 ms [User: 299.0 ms, System: 30.8 ms] Range (min … max): 326.6 ms … 336.5 ms 20 runs Benchmark 3: nix flakes eval --raw --impure --file expr.nix Time (mean ± σ): 2.655 s ± 0.038 s [User: 2.364 s, System: 0.220 s] Range (min … max): 2.574 s … 2.737 s 20 runs after: Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello Time (mean ± σ): 6.912 s ± 0.036 s [User: 5.823 s, System: 0.856 s] Range (min … max): 6.849 s … 6.980 s 20 runs Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix Time (mean ± σ): 325.1 ms ± 2.5 ms [User: 293.2 ms, System: 31.8 ms] Range (min … max): 322.2 ms … 332.8 ms 20 runs Benchmark 3: nix flakes eval --raw --impure --file expr.nix Time (mean ± σ): 2.636 s ± 0.024 s [User: 2.352 s, System: 0.226 s] Range (min … max): 2.574 s … 2.681 s 20 runs |
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Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.